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COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it doesn't have and created a mountain of public debt. And yet, when the crisis has passed, we will be left with all the old problems of welfare and well-being which we have systematically failed to address over the past fifty years. In this book, Chris Pierson argues that we need to think quite differently about how we can ensure our collective well-being in the future. To do this, he looks backwards to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.

Alongside environmental degradation, the globally unequal distribution of wealth is one of the key political problems of our age. The third volume of 'Just Property' provides an account of how we might re-think how property works for us (collectively) and what we might do to fix the problems that we all face.

Alongside environmental degradation, the globally unequal distribution of wealth is one of the key political problems of our age. The third volume of 'Just Property' provides an account of how we might re-think how property works for us (collectively) and what we might do to fix the problems that we all face.

This text traces the complex lineages of thinking about private property from ancient to modern times. It challenges a number of deep-seated assumptions we make about the incontestability of private property by building a careful and extended account of where these assumptions came from

Modern states -- Placing the state in modernity -- States and societies -- State and economy -- States and citizens -- States and the international order -- States of the twenty-first century.